Wired editor Thompson named CEO of The Atlantic
Nicholas Thompson, the editor in chief of Wired magazine, has been hired as chief executive officer of The Atlantic. He will start his new position in February and be based in New York. “I’ve read and been inspired by The Atlantic my whole life – especially through the brilliant run they’ve had recently,” he wrote […]
Burns departing Wired for Politico
Wired associate engagement manager Kam Burns will be leaving the company to join Politico as an engagement editor on the audience team. Burns joined Wired in 2018 as a social media coordinator, before being promoted to his current post, where he developed new methods of engagement on platforms such as Twitch, TikTok and Reddit. He […]
Wired seeks associate director of social media
WIRED is looking for a creative and innovative media talent to join our audience development, social and analytics team. A perfect candidate will understand how to use social media to develop, engage, and inform audiences across platforms, and be clued in on emerging networks and how WIRED can use them effectively. The associate director will […]
What’s the strategy behind Wired’s games coverage?
Wired service editor Alan Henry writes about why the magazine is expanding into games coverage. Henry writes, “We’re passionate about gaming, but we’re only going to talk about the games, the hardware, and the news we think are really worth talking about. There are other outlets happy to flood your inbox with every trailer, release, and announcement—and […]
Reporter Matsakis is leaving Wired
Louise Matsakis, a Wired magazine staff writer covering Amazon and TikTok, is leaving the publication. Her last day is Friday. Matsakis writes predominantly about technology and the internet. She’s mostly interested in major tech companies such as Apple and Google, cyberlaw, the automation of social media, and online communities. She used to be an editor at Motherboard, VICE Media’s technology […]
Why Wired and Bloomberg are expanding gaming industry coverage
Kerry Flynn of CNN Business writes about how Wired and Bloomberg News are expanding their gaming industry coverage. Flynn writes, “Wired Games, announced last month, is not Wired magazine’s first foray into video game coverage. But Editor-In-Chief Nicholas Thompson said he noticed that there had been less resources devoted to the topic when he returned to […]
Wired’s Goode: Inspired by her coworkers
Wired senior editor Lauren Goode, who hosts its Get Wired podcast, talked with Zocalo about her job. Here is an excerpt: Q: What’s the last thing that inspired you? A: Just before this phone call I was on an internal meeting within WIRED where a bunch of colleagues and I were talking about some of the profiles […]
Farnsworth leaving Wired for Google
Meghann Farnsworth, director of social media at Wired, is leaving the publication to join the communications team at Google. “I will miss this wonderful Wired team and am so incredibly proud of the work we did together,” she wrote on Twitter. Fransworth was previously engagement editor at Recode. Before joining Recode, she was the managing […]
Weekly “Get Wired” podcast starts Monday
Lauren Goode of Wired writes about its new weekly podcast, “Get Wired.” Goode writes, “Each week, we’ll take our listeners behind the scenes of our most compelling, dystopian, and encouraging stories. We’ll explore the bizarre world of neighborhood watch apps and the people who rush to the scenes to livestream crimes from their phones. We’ll dive […]
The Information hires Martineau, Di Stefano as reporters
Technology news site The Information has hired Financial Times’ Mark Di Stefano and Wired’s Paris Martineau. Di Stefano will be covering Amazon and Big Tech’s European battles from London, while Martineau will be reporting on Amazon from New York. Prior to joining Financial Times as a media and tech reporter, Di Stefano was first a […]
